Brooks Artificial Intimacy

Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55385-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

The evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks explores the latest research on intimacy and desire to consider how new technologies and fundamental human behaviors interact. He details how existing artificial intelligences can already learn and exploit human social needs—and are getting better at what they do.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brooks, Rob

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Robotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: In the beginning …
1. Meet the dollbots
2. It’s not about the robot
3. Groom your friends
4. The intimacy algorithm
5. How did sex become so complicated?
6. When artificial intimacy goes bad
7. Ploughs, pills and porn: How technology changes sex
8. Tomorrow’s moral panic will be just like yesterday’s
9. Make war not love
10. A Fembot army to disarm the InCel insurrection
11. There’s no such thing as free love
12. A future in four fictions
Acknowledgments
References
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rob Brooks is Scientia Professor of Evolution at the University of New South Wales, where he founded and directed the Evolution and Ecology Research Centre. He is the author of Sex, Genes, & Rock ’n’ Roll: How Evolution Has Shaped the Modern World (2011).